Seminar Program
Spring 2013
Seminars are on Tuesdays, 4:00-4:50 in Sanger
Hall,
2nd floor Room 2-020 (unless otherwise noted)
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Jan. 15 |
Sterling Drug Lecture
Kathryn Cunningham, Ph.D., Director UTMB Center for Addiction Research
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX
Host: Matthew Banks,
Ph.D.
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"Serotonin, impulsivity and cue reactivity: Implications for
pharmacotherapy" |
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Jan. 22 |
Richard
Moran, Ph.D., Professor Department of Pharamcology and Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
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"Activation of AMP-dependent kinase by Pemetrexed and lung cancer
therapeutics" |
| Jan. 29 |
Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
Department of Chemistry Neuroscience & Cancer Research
Program Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute North
Carolina Central University Durham, NC
Host: Dana
Selley, Ph.D.
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"Endocannabinoid-mediated regulation of matrixmetalloprotease
(MMP) activity: Implication in pathobiology of stroke and
cancer" |
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Feb. 5 |
David
Gewirtz, Ph.D., Professor Department of Pharamcology and Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
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"Autophagy inhibition as a therapeutic strategy in cancer or How negative
data lead to unexpected insights" |
| Feb. 19 |
Everette May Lecture
Ursula Winzer-Serhan, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Texas A&M University College Station, TX
Host: Sandra Welch,
Ph.D.
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"The long-lasting consequences of developmental nicotine
exposure" |
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Feb. 26 |
Ruth Ross, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology University of Toronto Toronto, ON CANADA
Host: Aron
Lichtman, Ph.D.
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"Cannabinoid pharmacology: the shape of things to come" |
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Mar. 19 |
Ru-Rong Ji, Ph.D. Professor, Chief of Pain Research, Dept. Anesthesiology
Duke University Durham, NC
Host: Steve Negus, Ph.D.
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"Neuro-glial and neuro-immune interactions in pain" |
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Apr. 2 |
Kathryn Gauthier, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI
Host: Yang
Zhang, Ph.D.
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"Lipoxygenase metabolites as inducible EDHFs" |
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Apr. 16 |
Olimpia Meucci, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Host: Kurt
Hauser. Ph.D.
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"Alteration of neuronal ferritin heavy chain (FHC) in HIV/drug abuse
patients: relevance to CXCL12/CXCR4 function and HAND" |
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Apr. 30 |
Yavin Shaham, Ph.D., Senior
Investigator NIDA Intramural Research Program Behavioral Neuroscience
Branch Baltimore, MD
Host: Darlene
Brunzell, Ph.D.
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"The role of conditioned drug effects in drug relapse" |
For further information, please contact Sallie
Sparks or Dr. Andrew Davies
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Virginia Commonwealth University | School of Medicine | Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
1112 E. Clay Street, Room 100, P.O. Box 980613, Richmond, VA 23298-0613 Phone: (804) 828-5696
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